"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise
their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember
or overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address / March 4, 1861

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They're doing it to Gray Davis.
Trying to overthrow him.
Gray Davis didn't even lie blatantly to create fear and net support based on sheer falsity.. to send our troops to their death for oil ...
nor did Gray Davis, with his corporate associates, rob his State's citizens blind. We know who did.
Bush and Cheney helped to kill California's economy and rob and antagonize California's citizens by their secrecy and
complicity in their political facilitating of the energy scandals.

We, the people, refuse to rise up against the real economy-killers and war mongerers.

Yet we watch complacently as those who support the unelected killers overthrow democratically-elected victims.

Why are we afraid?

Have we forgotten who owns this country according to the sacred Founding documents?

I have to say this. It needs to be said.
If Hillary Clinton is not going to run in 2004..possibly the most important election in American history (the very LIFE of our
American democracy may depend upon it)...then she should get the hell off the stage and let the serious 2004 contenders into the light.
This is no time to play primadonna bookseller to the idiotic entertainment news media and all the dumbed-down gullible souls that follow that same
disgusting gossip-mill-journalism's every word.
The time for playing games is surely not now. I lose respect for her by the day. She ought to be running for President now when the country
really needs her if she is indeed serious. She is completely "patriotically incorrect" by telling us she may wait until 2008. That's like saying she expects and
hopes for a Democrat defeat this time around... simply because 'tis not HERSELF in the running!

"The Bush administration wants to repackage the Iraq war as a noble war of choice. But that’s not how they sold it. Billions of dollars and thousands of lives were consumed based upon the determination stating that this was a war of necessity, to protect America and the world from a regime armed with WMDs...."

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Iddybud is a descendant of American patriots, membership to DAR pending, a descendant of a family member who lost another dubious American Presidential election in 1876, so you might understand why she took Selection 2000 to heart.

desiderata - by max ehrmann
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann c.1920